Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since the test was concerned only with Saturn's first-stage booster, scientists were free to use the dummy upper stages for an ingenious experiment. Stored in Saturn's snout as ballast were 23,000 gal. of water weighing 95 tons. When the rocket neared the peak of its trajectory, seconds after its engines cut out, it was blown to bits on radio command. Some 65 miles above the Atlantic, the water released by the explosion spread into a giant, sun-splashed cloud of ice crystals. Below, on the earth's surface, a network of radars...
...ball games. It is the time when the boss has to step out from behind his cordon of secretaries and offer himself up at the annual stockholders' meeting as the main course in the year's first barbecue. Last week, with annual meetings at their peak, in one day alone the heads of 150 U.S. corporations were grilled by their stockholders...
...January and February, but since then it has climbed steeply. By March it had reached 29-48 millimicrocuries, and scientists of Japan's Meteorological Institute estimate that it will reach about 50 millimicrocuries for the month of April. After the notably "dirty" Soviet tests of 1958, the figure peaked at 94.45 in May of 1959. Japanese meteorologists point out that their last winter was very dry with rainfall registering only about half that of three years ago. They predict that when the heavy spring rains arrive, they will pull down enough fallout to equal or exceed the 1959 peak...
...authorities, including the Atomic Energy Commission, the Public Health Service and the Weather Bureau, feel sure that the 1962 fallout will probably equal or exceed the 1959 peak, but they are not alarmed. The fission energy yield of the Soviet 1958 tests was 10 to 15 megatons. The total energy of last fall's Soviet tests was much greater (170 mega tons), but most of it came from nuclear fusion, which creates little fallout. Only about 25 megatons came from nuclear fission of uranium or plutonium, and since many of the Russian tests were exploded at high altitudes, their...
Trading Range. Nevertheless, the consensus among the analysts is that the market will hit one more peak in 1962. But they warn that the market is in a "trading range,'' i.e., one where as many stocks go down as go up. and that to make money, a selective investor must watch for undervalued shares of companies with strong profit potentials. A minority of Wall Streeters even suggest that the next peak may mark the end of the Great Bull Market-which has persisted for 15 years despite temporary setbacks. Not even the pessimists, however, predict a selling panic...